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...from reading philosophy in jail, state officials claimed, Ma Duncan had plotted to kill a matron and break out. At her clemency hearing, her son Frank, 33, argued that his mother was "periodically" mentally ill; that "she had a tremendous fear of, frankly, losing me. She needed someone to whom she could come home, someone to cook for, to keep house for," he contended, ignoring the fact that Mrs. Duncan had been married at least ten times. There was no public drive to save Mrs. Duncan; of 220 messages on her case reaching Governor Brown, 165 urged that...
Stowaway in the Sky will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its bal-loonist's-eye view of the fair land of France...
Five seconds to air time. "Untie your shoes and loosen your girdles," says the portly announcer, drawing a laugh. Then Don McNeill steps out on the stage and shoves the announcer into the lap of a giggling matron in the front row. In the burst of laughter, the band strikes up, and everybody in the Fountain Room at Chicago's Sherman House Hotel rousingly sings: "Good morning, breakfast clubbers, Good morning...
They were, of course, the characters whose happy problems and placid turmoil filled six-part serials during the great days of the women's, magazines. Their most important characteristic was, as the millions of matron readers knew, and as the writers and editors knew they knew, that the problems and turmoil did not really matter. If you cut into a Brick or a Jeremy (and there was constant cutting; men and children in the serials were fatally susceptible to plot-advancing ailments), you found only a dense, featureless white substance, like the inside of a potato. Spinal meningitis...
Stowaway in the Sky is no respecter of age. It will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its balloonist-eye view of the fair land of France...